FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

Susan Marr Spaulding

Fate

Two shall be born, the whole wide world apart

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

81, 83

The little red

Here's a little red song to the god of guts, who dwells in palaces, brothels, huts;

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Homer Bryant

Until I Die

I gazed with awe this morning still between my horse's ears and see a white-tail run. Ther's something that's upset this deer and

lion, rattlesnakes, God, master, home, guns

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

Robert W. Service

Unforgotten

I know a garden where the lilies gleam, and one who lingers in the sunshine there;

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

85, 87

Alice Cary

Nobility

True worth is in being, not seeming

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

86, 88,

The bowery

Oh! The night that I struck New York, I went out for a quiet walk

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Ron Chappell

The "Sammon" Didn't Run

The ragin' Na-Ha river comes a frothin' to the sea, a homeward trail for steelhead trout and men "gang aft aglee." I came to see the eagle fly

dream, God, canneries, ghostly voices, whisper

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

Leolyn Louise Everett

Song

Love was a flower that bloomed an hour and died.

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

89, 91

Lew York

Jungle stew

Old Keno Slim was chinnin' with the kid from Tennessee

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Lisa Quinlan

The Last Voice

"It was beautiful, a long time ago. The land was covered with meadows and wild flowers in all colors. They swayed together in the wind. The waters were clean and clear

sand, abuser, flawless, memories, survive

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

90, 92, 94

White wings

Sail home, as straight as an arrow, my Yacht shoots along on the rest of the sea

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Lisa Quinlan

The Hawk In The Hay Field

"Ah, there you are, I was looking for you." I say as I watch him circle and hover over the windrower waiting for a frightened mouse or rabbit

perfect, powerful, levitates, gently flies, camera

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

93, 95

Eva Rose York

I shall not pass this way again

I shall not pass this way again, although it bordered be with flowers

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

Sweet Betsy from Pike

Oh, don't you remember sweet Betsy from Pike

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

FC 11 F-23

Oh! Susanna

Oh! Susanna, Oh don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama, Wid my banjo on my knee

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Tim Henderson

Rio De Lagrimas

The Garzas have ranched on this river for years, Y Hombres sin Nombre no deben llorar, since before it shrank up and ran as salty tears,

cramp, sick, die, poisoner, curse, maquilador

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Tim Henderson

Big Black Hearted Mountain

My grandpa knew this mountain, her hardwoods tall and clean, and stamped against a turquoise sky like an emerald serene, She stored jade in every hollow

murder, smoke, fire, soul, coal

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

John C. Dofflemyer

parity

The rarity of idle time and space to spend it in is taxed along with cycled salt in sun by books of regulation, legal culprits in disguise- where there ain't room to hide or place to run.

enslave, dollar, predator, nation, heart, birth, believe

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

John C. Dofflemyer

In Space

The street signs become the scentposts for coyotes and sidewalks the stage for the rat's rampant race. The nesters stay cowered past stout chains and bolts

sense, dimension, existed, pretense, resisted, revolves, sediment

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Larry McWhorter

The panhandle

Where the short grass struggles daily, racing wind to claim each rain before it sucks the precious drops up in it's skyward drain.

dreamer, vision, rhyme, summer, brutal, demand

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Larry McWhorter

The Gate

Once painted white with loving care it's now a grayish brown with scattered specks of remnant paint. The free end drags the ground.

enhance, scent, replace, brute, bolts, threads

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Bill Wood

Fleeting Moments

A quarter-mile from the ranch house lookin' off toward ol' Sand Creek a 'top a high divided a lonely rider gazes out at a stretch of open prairie

homestead, lonely, pride, successes, veteran

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Neil Meili

Round Up

It's about the hardest dirtiest best work a man can get. The pride of the heeling rope, thrown snake quick from a good horse and the slow steady pull;

desire, hot irons, old fence

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Neil Meili

Memories Of Three Or Four

I remember being nestled in that old ranch kitchen, deep in the warmth of washday monday. The maytag's liquid sound mixing with the gentle driving chugs

gas engine, laundry, safely, heartbeat, rhythm

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Teresa Jordan

Beyond Conflict

You are neighbors whether you want to be or not, because the land itself unites you. It links you as you both walk on it today, and you will both lie in it together

Navajo, demographic sense, anger, intimately, competence, body language